Foodies

I’m guilty.  I’m engaging myself again by eating a lot and I know I’m not supposed to do that.  But I love to cook and that’s the best thing I can do when at home.  And then we sometimes having this lunch out in the office and I can’t help but to chow down my food.  I am all trying to eat healthy fruits and veggies whenever I can but that wouldn’t help if I keep eating like this.

I talked to hubby to bring down the air bike we bought last year and he was just laughing that the dust will just eat it because I have no time to use it.  But I swear, I wanted to but I don’t know why I can’t. Lazy? Tired?  But I promise, next month, I will make a difference.  Ha-ha!

By the meantime, just look at the sumptuous feast below to know what I’ve been talking to.

New Role

We’re having major changes in our family system this month.  I will be handling down all the expenses and planning starting this week instead of hubby taking care of the expenses and I on the planning.  As I’m taking down all possible expenses for this month (since we really need to adjust on once a month payday of hubby) I know this is a tough job to do.  And my head starting to ache thinking I need to save for Nathan’s future. 

But I know I can pull this off.  I just need to make sure that everything will be covered and I need lot courage to make it through.  I am praying to have more savings before the year ends and so help me God.

Labor Day

Another month has passed and May here in the Philippines means flower and some of the major feast is happening all over the country.  As much as we wanted to travel around to attend some occasions, the searing heat forbids us to do that.  I will rather go to the mall to freshen up or I will stay in our house to avoid the sun. Today is a holiday because of Labor Day and we opted to stay at home to my surprise, hubby agreed. 

Going to church every Sunday is cooler now that our parish priest decided to open the air conditioning system of the church.  I think that is the best thing that happened this month and people are now happy with the changes and for me it encouraged Catholics to give more because we knew that our church wants us to be convenient also.

May is also the birth month of my brother, a family friend and my niece.  And we should not forget the mother’s day on the second week of the month.  I hope everyone can celebrate it in our house.  That will be awesome. 

I can only wish for happy months ahead.  I will not expect but I will pray for it.

Missing KoyKoy

I am missing this boy or should I say, this big boy beside my hubby.  It’s been years since I last saw him and during my father’s wake that we have given a chance to see him again.  And he changed a lot, he became shy who hardly talk or maybe it really feels so awkward seeing us after all.  He is mature looking even though he’s only turning 12 before the month ends.  

My older sister and I tried to communicate with him in any way we can, we prepared him foods and I told him to just go in the internet shop so he won’t get bored and I will be the one to pay the fees.  And he started to loosen up.  And I can’t help myself but to feel sad with the whole thing, with the things turned out, with the situation, with the wrong minds and wrong people.  I miss the old kid that used to laugh with us and being so sweet and asking us for something. We missed seeing him grow. And it pains me looking at his sad and lonely eyes.  Above all that,  I just wish him all the love, happiness and luck in the world.  It might be the last time we will be able to see him ever again but he knows that we love him very much.  In the right time and in the right reason, we can be together again, happily.  May the Good Lord guide him always.  

Wish List

I had a casual talk with my husband last night regarding on when to replace our furniture. Some of them are getting old and it started to worn out that I feel that it’s not safe for our kid anymore.  Nathan keeps on jumping up and down at our sofa that you can now feel the spring on your skin when you sit down.  I wonder how long will it hold to Nathan’s newly found habit.  I still need another chair in our room because our child loves to sit down on the floor while watching TV and we need to teach him to sit on the chair instead. 

 

Judging on hubby’s classy style, he said he had an idea on what to buy for our room.  There’s one particular Barcelona chair that he really likes and he’s eyeing to buy it once he has my approval.  And looking at it, well, I think he’s right about it.  It will look good in our room.  And now we have to include it in our wish list for this year.  I need to keep track on our list so we will still be within our budget. But then again we have to prioritize some of Nathan’s basic needs first.

Good and Bad

I think April is not for me, well, for some reasons.  One, I lost my blackberry cell phone in the taxi on the way for my Mom’s monthly check up.  The taxi driver don’t care enough to answer my phone even though you can sing right through with a Nelly song. One thing for sure, I have my incoming call volume into the maximum mode.  So after an hour of my sisters and my hubby’s calling my number, he has the courage to take out my SIM card and so the end of my 6 month phone.

Second,   I lost my camera’s memory card.  And adding insult to the injury, I think my DSLR camera has a problem too.  It just made a slow and disappointing process on keeping its quality during my hubby’s birthday celebration yesterday and Nathan had a blast dancing a One Direction song in the living room.  Our relatives keep on clapping to encourage him to do more on his one man show.  And I recorded it all on my DSLR but then after I put it on my table to get the card reader, I forget about it for some reasons and then at night, it was all gone.    

It all happened just barely 2 weeks of April and I hope it will be the last.  Well, I still have some good news to tell you and that is my hubby’s birthday treat and our mini store is doing all fine.  I hope for more good news before the month ends.  I just keep on praying for that.  Aja, aja!

Upcoming

I have to save for hubby’s birthday on Friday.  But we will celebrate it on Saturday since we both have work on that day.  I’ve been busy opening up our sari-sari store in my siblings place in Pasay that most of my budget went there.  I need to find means to help them in any way I can to help them in their daily expenses.

I wanted to have a small gatherings on Saturday with close friends and family having lunch with us and in the afternoon, I will serve them with the home made tacos my eldest sister taught us when we were having some family time in La Marea home.  I wish we can go and celebrate his birthday in a private resort but we needed lots of time and budget to do that.  I guess we will have to include that in our wish lists this year.  But for now, my Saturday plans and menu will definitely be great.